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An edition of Breve historia de los cowboys (2009)

Breve historia de los cowboys

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Todos los detalles de la mitica historia de los cowboys que, entre 1865 y 1880, cabalgaron por las praderas del "Oeste" a lomos de sus caballos, sombrero bien calado y pistola presta. Hombres duros y recios, cuya verdadera esencia era el trabajo duro, la austeridad y el peligro.Discover the true history of the North American cowboys, brave and tough horse riders with rough manners and who lived a solitary and dangerous life where the only governing laws were those of nature.The enormous and unending prairies that extended from Canada to the Rio Grand and from the Rocky Mountains to almost the Mississippi River eventually began to witness the decline of the buffalo and saw cattle take their place. This was the beginning of the new age in the history of the North American West, where the cowboy was the main figure.Between 1865 and 1880, 40,000 cowboys herded more than nine million heads of cattle between Texas and many other areas of the country, including the railway hubs of Kansas, where freight trains moved the cattle to the slaughter houses of Chicago to be sacrificed and shipped off as meat to feed the country and a good part of the world.The golden age of the cowboy, along with those of other archetypal figures of the West, barely lasted twenty years, but in those two decades the cowboy became not only the most celebrated personality of the West, but a folk hero for a nation and a reference in the collective imagination of the Western world.Las inmensas e inagotables praderas que se extienden desde Canada al Rio Grande y desde las Rocosas hasta casi el Misisipi se iban vaciando de bufalos y el ganado vacuno de modo natural fue tomando su lugar. Comienza entonces una nueva pagina de la historia del Oeste norteamericano, cuya figura mas emblematica sera la del cowboy.Entre 1865 y 1880, 40.000 cowboys acarrearon mas de nueve millones de cabezas de ganado desde Texas a muchas zonas del pais, especialmente a los nudos ferroviarios de Kansas, donde eran embarcadas hacia los mataderos de Chicago para ser sacrificadas y convertidas en alimento.Con la expansion de la red de ferrocarriles por todo el pais, la era del ganado itinerante se acabo y el trabajo del cowboy se hizo mas rutinario y sedentario hasta perder presencia en el Oeste. En plena decadencia, el cowboy se refugio en el circo, en el rodeo y en la demostracion de la doma de broncos, ganando asi proyeccion en la leyenda y la mitologia.Breve Historia de los Cowboys nos traslada al lejano y fascinante mundo del Oeste y nos descubre la aventura de los hombres que en apenas dos decadas crearon el arquetipo mas celebre de la historia norteamericana y se convirtieron en los heroes de toda una nacion.

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Nowtilus
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Spanish
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2009, Nowtilus
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Madrid
Series
Breve historia
Other Titles
Cowboys

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978

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Pagination
348 p.
Number of pages
348

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Open Library
OL27109411M
Internet Archive
brevehistoriadel0000dova
ISBN 10
8497635833
ISBN 13
9788497635837
OCLC/WorldCat
320971517

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